The Medical Renaissance
Movement International is an organization that truly supports the
interests of medical practitioners, health practitioners, nurses and
the public.

It aims to bring together the global community of doctors, health
practitioners, nurses and patients to lobby their respective governments
for the creation of a healing culture which places priority on the
health of the individual rather than on the illness of the individual.
In this respect, it supports preventative, nutritional, mind/body
medicine, naturopathy and Wellness Medicine and sees healing as
being a unique partnership between the doctor and the patient, and
between allopathic medicine and complimentary and alternative medicine.

The Medical Renaissance Movement:

Focuses on healing the whole person - mind, body and spirit
in the context of community.

Educates and empowers people to be active participants in their
own care. It helps them to take responsibility for their own health
and wellness.

Integrates the best of Western scientific medicine with a broader
understanding of the nature of illness, healing and wellness.

Encourages the building of healing partnerships with our patients,
and supports the individualisation of care.

Aims to create a culture of wellness.

If you would like to become a member of the Medical Renaissance
Movement, and help to reform the Medical and Health System Globally,,
please complete this form and mail, fax or e-mail back to us ASAP
on medren@ozemail.com.au

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The Medical Renaissance Movement aims to lobby for a form of medicine
which is integrative and health giving and gives individuals the
opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives and the opportunity
to arrest the development of degenerative disease or prevent it
altogether. It aims to create an organization that truly supports
the interests of medical practitioners, health practitioners, nurses
and the patients.

There is a global health crisis with an increasing epidemic of
cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis,
stress and depression. The major cause of this epidemic is lifestyle
and nutrition. Rather than spending billions of dollars on pharmaceutical
products and biotechnology, the Government should be using the key
principles of integral and nutritional medicine to promote health
and prevent illness.

The pharmaceutical industry, Globally, has a GDP of over $1 trillion
and if Governments continue to use drugs as a primary treatment
of illness their GDP's will mushroom out of control.

Implementation of preventive health principles can save billions
in health care costs and these dollars can then be reinvested into
further research in nutritional and environmental and mind/body
medicine. Indeed, it is recognized that the next trillion dollar
industry in the world will be the wellness industry.

There are tremendous advances in Complimentary and Alternative
medicine occurring in Europe and the United States spear headed
for example by the University of California, and the Harvard Medical
School.

Adverse affects from pharmaceutical drugs,
or illness caused by drugs or technological intervention, is such
that the treatment of such illnesses is now the third most common
cause of death in western society.

The medical system, in Western society, functions
as an anonymous, alienating machine, in which the hospital is structured
like a factory, in which patients become institutionalized. Doctors
are taught a bio-medical model, which denies the innate healing
capacity of the body and sees the human being as a machine which
can be fixed by giving a pharmaceutical chemical drug which has
many toxic side effects. Most of the pharmaceutical compendium which
Doctors consult for prescribing drugs consists of details of the
toxic side effects of the drugs prescribed.

The New Medicine, indeed, encompasses a healing
approach, which sees the individual as mind, body, and spirit and
also as an aspect of community, environment and culture. For example,
because globally we live in a political system motivated by fear
and scarcity, there is no reason why we should not extrapolate these
as being some of the causes of the enormous degree of cardiovascular
disease and depression and stress seen in society.

As Doctors, we need to be aware of ourselves
as healing agents, and therefore also agents of political change.

There is usually no simplified database referral procedure or even
access for other health care agencies. Even with a medical or psychiatric
referral it is very difficult for patients to be seen immediately,
unless seen privately. GPs or primary care physicians rarely get
early feedback about patient care from specialists, especially in
hospitals.

GPs are the meat in the sandwich. They feel compelled to provide
their patients with the drugs and antibiotics that the patients
call for and yet cannot give adequate care which requires a preventative,
nutritional and lifestyle approach as they are not paid to do this.
This is because doctors are taught the biomedical model which is
a reductive paradigm and are not taught about functional medicine
which includes prevention of illness and promotion of health. Doctors
produce band-aid approaches which serve the financial needs of the
pharmaceutical companies who wish to promote their latest drug.

The new medicine which the Medical Renaissance Group proposes is
an integrated health system which is based on communication between
all specialties of doctors, as well as other health professionals.
Above and beyond all of this is the need to change attitudes and
mind-set so that we may have healing in the broadest possible sense-
healing not only of our society, but of our environment and our
planet as they are all related and all vitally connected.

The system is so narrowly focused and self regulating it is unable
to see the statistical evidence of burgeoning illness and increased
costs because the biomedical model in itself is becoming progressively
outmoded and is being taken advantage of to add financial gain to
the GDP.

To gain recognition for GPs that they be recognized as "specialists"
in primary care and the conductors of the primary care orchestra.

To promote the primary care physician to play a more fundamental
role in the development of the future course of primary health
care. The power behind health care initiatives is the government.
It is evident that the government and the specialized bodies representing
the future of general practice do not adequately represent the
views of GPs in a system which is becoming more and more based
on computerisation, data storage of records, public health issues
and the formation of strict protocols. This is because the government
and the representative bodies for GPs are not at the frontline
and are not involved in the practice of medicine in every day
life.

To promote a hospital culture which is based on healing, nutrition,
and nurturing rather than compartmentalization, specialisation
and dehumanization where collateral damage in terms of iatrogenic
disease is considered to be unavoidable.

To promote an overall holistic view of medicine within the context
of mind, body, nutritional and environmental medicine, placing
an emphasis on preventative care and lifestyle change

The Group proposes to lobby for a New Medicine- an integrated
health system which is based on communication between all specialties
of doctors as well as other health professionals with the prime
aim of giving members of the public the opportunity to heal themselves
by using the latest understanding of body - mind medicine, psychoneuroimmunology,
nutritional, environmental and preventive medicine as well as
accessing the very best of complementary medicine. There is a
need to change attitudes and mindset so that we have healing in
the broadest possible sense not only of the individual, but society,
and the environment.

The Medical Renaissance Group promotes the integration of complementary
and alternative medicine within the Australian medical system
in order to widen choice appropriately and harness natural healing
potential.

To create public awareness about the pros and cons of the current
medical system based on the biomedical model and the need for
a more inclusive form of medicine which enables them to take more
responsibility for their illnesses and also prevent degenerative
disease.

To create the situation whereby doctors are able to have support
groups and support from peers, so that they do not feel isolated
or alone when put in difficult therapeutic situations, or have
personal problems. In other words, to provide "healing"
for the healer.

It is the General Practitioner who
should be intimately involved in parameters of health defined by
the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion from which has been derived
the World Health Authority objectives Health for All by the Year
2000. This includes; Promotion of healthy lifestyles, Prevention
of preventable disease, Increasing rehabilitation and community
health services.

Dr Michael Ellis, Chief Editor and Creative vision
behind The New Paradigm Journal, www.newparadigmjournal.com
is an English trained Doctor with over 20 years of General Practice
experience both in the UK and in Australia. He has higher qualifications
in general medicine and paediatrics. He has a special interest in
Mind/ Body medicine and in optimising the physical, mental and emotional
health of the individual.

As well as his medical qualifications, Dr Ellis
also has an Honours Degree in Literature, Arts, Philosophy and Social
Psychology. He also has Naturopathic qualifications.

He is Co-Founder of The Medical Renaissance Group
www.medicalrenaissance.com.
with Dr Jager Holly. He is also Founder and President of the Global
Citizens for Peace, www.globalcitizens.org.
In conjunction with the Centre for Change in the Third Millenium
www.centreforchange.org
founded by Dr Michael Ellis, the Global Citizens for Peace, is an
open forum and on going dialogue for humankind in key issues affecting
sustainable survival and the search for solutions. The aim is the
creation of a planetary peace culture.

Dr Ellis has a keen interest in the plight of
the ordinary GP and is concerned in creating a more sustainable
and caring health system and healing culture for both doctors and
the community. Because of this he established the Medical Renaissance
Movement with Dr Jager Holly in 2001 in Australia. The Medical Renaissance
Movement supports preventative nutritional Mind Body Medicine and
Wellness Medicine and sees healing as being a unique partnership
between the doctor and the patient. He is on the Executive Board
of the Australian Integrative Medical Association (AIMA), http://www.aima.net.au/,
Executive Board of World CME http://www.WorldCME.com/
and Executive Board of Child Watch http://www.child-watch.org/

Dr Ellis has conducted seminars on Globalisation,
and Wellness at the Post Graduate School of Medicine Swinburne University,
Melbourne. He is also an international speaker on Integrative Medicine.